43-59 AND 71-81, QUEEN'S ROAD

This is a terrace of 14 shops, originally a continuous terrace of 19, built in 1861 by Foster and Wood. Numbers 61-69 were rebuilt in the 20th century and are not included in the listing. The building is constructed of limestone ashlar with party wall stacks, and the roof is not visible. It follows a double-depth plan, and is three storeys high, comprised of an 11-window range on the left and a 7-window range on the right. The terrace curves at both ends.

Architectural features include a first-floor lintel band, a second-floor sill band, a bracketed cornice with swag detailing between the brackets, and a parapet. The east end features vertical panels displaying palmettes. The ground floor has 20th-century shop fronts, while the ends have 19th-century bank fronts. Numbers 43 and 45 have five tripartite windows with panelled aprons and an entablature and cornice, and two doorways with eared architraves and segmental pediments over six-panel doors. Number 77B features a rusticated ground floor to the right, with a doorway having a plain surround and a six-panel door, articulated by paired Doric columns to an entablature with acanthus consoles dividing the fascia, and a left-hand doorway with an architrave and a six-panel door. Upper windows have architraves, raised aprons panelled to the second floor, and console cornices; second-floor pediments are present over paired windows at numbers 51-57 and 71-75, while segmental pediments top the tripartite windows elsewhere, all framing plate-glass sash windows. Attic windows are set between cornice brackets above the pediments. The interior has not been inspected. The building relates to the opposite terraces on Royal Parade. The central section was destroyed in the Second World War and subsequently rebuilt in a contrasting style.